Jetliner advances boost survivability

12:27 PM,
Jul. 9, 2013

Written by

Kevin Hiatt

Anyone seeing the pictures of the smoldering wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 on a San Francisco runway this weekend and hearing the terrifying passenger stories had to wonder how anyone could have survived. Yet only two passengers were killed of the 307 aboard.

We have seen a number of frightening aviation incidents over the past few years - such as Air France Flight 358 in 2005 in Toronto, British Airways Flight 38 in 2008 in London, and most recently Lion Air 904 last April in Indonesia - in which every passenger survived.